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Hooray! According to several box office results listings, including Movies.com, Beowulf topped the box office this weekend with a weekend gross of over $28 million! It blew two other first-week runs right out of the water (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and Love in the Time of Cholera – both movies I actually want to see too), and pretty well trampled everything else.
Awesome news!
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I am so happy!!! now lets get out there and suport Jesse James. Take everyone you know to see it. Lets prove those bloody tabloids wrong,(they have not lost box office appeal because of overexposed private life).
Go see it, you will never regret it. Nice movie specially at Imax. That’s where I watched it with my husband. I will try to watch it again.I love Angie in that movie, she is beautiful & good.
I am so going to see this even if it costs a bit to watch in IMAX or 3D. :)
I absolutely love this :D
$45 MIL is great!
I’am happy for the result.
wohoo!
thanks sherry for the update, and congratulations to angie and the rest of the cast and crew.its also showing now in hongkong since nov.15 and were going to watch it this coming sunday. hurray for beouwolf!
Moderation again??
Thanks for the news Sherry and Ligaya.
Am not surprised at all, the screening I went to was full and that was an afternoon show.
Fantastic movie.
Thanks Sherry for posting the pic’s of the Jolie-Pitt’s. I especially love the ones of each of them whispering in each others ears and the pure love between them. The heat between them is undeniable. I’m sick of the rags and some legit mags, say how they aren’t getting along. They don’t look like they are faking anything….
Congrats to crew/cast! They must be proud. & with thanksgiving coming around the corner, this film is sure to make more dough.
I really don’t know if I should see this movie though. The only reason I even considered seeing this movie is because Angelina’s in it. So I really don’t know if I’m going to see it or not. But congratz again crew/cast!
Behind the Scenes, Hugh Hart,
Copyright 2007 SF Chronicle
The eyes have it: Like the poet says, eyes are windows to the soul.
“Beowulf” visual effects supervisor Jerome Chen was acutely aware of that fact when he embarked on director Bob Zemeckis’ latest experiment in motion-capture animation. Chen and his Sony Imageworks team of 450 digital artists spent three years creating fire-breathing dragons, jaw-dropping Angelina Jolie moments, dread-filled vistas of fog, snow and rain and a period-perfect medieval Mead Hall. But none of the 3-D spectacle would carry much emotional weight unless the characters seemed real.
To make that happen, Chen says, the filmmakers had to get the eyes right.
“Actors do a lot of acting with their eyes, and a big criticism that came up for our previous mo-cap picture ‘The Polar Express’ was that the eyes didn’t feel like they had realistic movement,” says Chen.
To capture subtle shifts in expression, Chen decided to re-purpose a sports medicine technology known as EOG, short for Electrooculography.
“Doctors attach electrodes to the muscles of athletes to measure electrical discharge. Since it’s the muscles around the eye that actually move the eye, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie and the other actors had electrodes attached around their eyes that go to this little box on top of their heads. The box is wired to this recording device at the small of their backs which basically converts the electrical discharge of the muscles around the eyes into animation curves. We then applied that to make the CG characters’ eyes move in the same way the actors’ eyes were doing.”
That’s a long way to go to capture nuances live-action filmmakers could accomplish with a simple close-up. Bottom line for Chen: It’s the little things that make digitized characters come alive. “When we started doing our tests two years ago we realized the characters just didn’t feel engaging enough. We knew ‘Beowulf’ couldn’t look cartoony, so to get that extra level of realism we needed to add detail, and that comes across as eye movement, wrinkles, freckles, which have a different level of brightness than the skin pores – it all gets very complex.”
#1 BOXOFFICE in the WORLD $45.1MIL
Domestic: $28,100,000 62.3%
+ Foreign: $17,000,000 37.7%
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= Worldwide: $45,100,000
#1 in North America
#1 in 13 markets
North America
A long-dreaded English class assignment morphed into America’s favorite movie this weekend as Paramount’s “Beowulf” conquered the domestic boxoffice with an estimated $28.1 million.
“Beowulf,” which opened roughly as expected, padded its boxoffice haul with strong grosses from about 850 3-D screens in 742 locations. Those included 84 Imax screens, which contributed almost $3.6 million, an amazing $42,619 per screen.
The pic’s 3-D theaters represented 20% of its overall engagements but contributed 40% to its weekend gross, execs said.
source: The Hollywood Reporter
Rest of the World
Action dominated foreign multiplexes as “Beowulf” fended off a spirited challenge from “American Gangster” to conquer the international weekend box office with $17 million at 2,500 playdates in 13 markets.
Where’s everybody? I hope, they are all in theaters watching Beowulf. Goodnight, see you all tomorrow.
So great that she’s on the cutting edge…happy to be her fan and glad that she has the support of a loving man in her life. BRAVO!!!
I love it too. My husband and I and my son and a friend (another teenage boy) went with us at the IMAX and it was awesome. The theatre was full and the next showing had long lines coming in. Angie’s close-ups were very enchanting and her voice, wow. There was part in the scene when A. Hopkins said, and “she is no hag.” When you see it, you will understand why he said that. Hooray for “Beowulf” what a wonderful movie. Kung Fu Panda will be out this summer. I saw a poster inside the theater lobby.
I knew it, # 1. Hooray. Congratulations to the actors & crews of Beowulf. It will continue to make money to the box office this week, the following week & so on. It’s really a great movie. Angie is stunning & pulled her character real well. I like her voice & the accent. I may add, I like the music too of Beowulf.Love the movie.